Thursday, June 2, 2011

What Are YOUR Hobbies?

We all love LOVE buying vintage treasures, I know many of you have turned it into a business.

But once in a while I like to combine my love for vintage with one of my favorite hobbies: art.

Won this collection of wonderfully vintage calligraphy pens for a song yesterday. I don't do much calligraphy lately, but I know these will look good in a mid century ceramic cup on display in my Studio.

Poker chips - old Bakelite chips...simply awesome and pretty. Paper chips are cool and you could for a while buy Marlboro clay chips with Marlboro miles...and I don't smoke but the chips are great for a Saturday night game with the gang. And to many hobbies to mention

Love your calligraphy pens! I paint and do calligraphy and make items out of precious metal clay. I have some of my mom's and my grandmother's brushes, but I hadn't ever thought about displaying them. That's a great idea.

What a really cool thing to collect! Blogging has turned into a great hobby and with that comes pictures taking. I also like to go to flea markets and garage sales, etc and then blog about what I've found and the adventures that we run across.

Great question! I love to cook so I buy mostly old kitchen things. Using pretty vintage things makes cooking a lot more fun too! We also love to listen to old records so quite a few records and record players come through here.

I'm with Kitty - vintage is my hobby. So is blogging about vintage (y'all can come to my link party at dearhelenhartman.com, btw, and share the fun)The art supplies are like works of art in their way right.

it's a little harder to translate my hobbies (stand-up comedy and unicycling) into design, but I like a challenge. I also do photography occasionally, and I've been looking for a brownie camera clone to use for decor purposes.

Man, I love to read. I love to get lost in a book. My favorite book is "The Thirteenth Tale." It's written so well, it's gothic-y with a lot of twists and turns. I've read it four times I believe and listened to it on cd once. It's so good every single time.

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Bringing my childhood 1950's, post-war, baby-boomer, mid-century atomic ranch style house back to her former glory.
I post antique, vintage, retro items, photos, links and topics daily (sometimes more!) for your viewing pleasure and mine. I am a professional artist and movie lover in addition to being the CEO and entrepreneur of my businesses, among many other things.
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